You may like at least some kind of music. But the problem is that, in lots of places, you're made {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(hear) somebody else's choice of music. Say you've just landed at an airport, where the background (背景) music may be played loudly. When you are {#blank#}2{#/blank#} the way to you hotel, there may be another kind of music {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (switch) on by the taxi driver. Then you go out to dinner and end up in a restaurant,{#blank#}4{#/blank#}owner thinks music will help make you eat more and spend more. Then a person {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(play) the violin comes around. This is called the “music wallpaper” and its purpose is to make you consume more. In a word, you find {#blank#}6{#/blank#} hard to find a quiet public place without music.

    Noise pollution may be {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(harm) to our hearing. It's also bad for some of our daily {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (activity).

    The fact {#blank#}9{#/blank#} you can't see, taste or smell noise may help explain why it has not received as much attention as other kinds of pollution, such as air pollution or water pollution. Many of us fail to realize we {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (surround) by too much noise. As a result, harm is done to our health without us being aware of it.

    A graduation speech given by Chief Justice John Roberts became a talking point after The Washington Post published it.

    Roberts {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(address)his son's ninth grade graduating class. He advised the young graduates{#blank#}2{#/blank#}(take)life's setbacks in their stride(从容地). But he did not wish{#blank#}3{#/blank#}(they)good luck.

    “Now, the speakers will typically also wish you good luck and extend good {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(wish) to you. I will not do that, and I will tell you why,” Roberts said.

    “From time to time, in the years to come, I hope you will be treated {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(unfair), so that you will come to know the value of justice. Sorry to say, but I hope you will be lonely from time to time, so that you don't take friends {#blank#}6{#/blank#}granted. I wish you bad luck again, from time to time, so that you will be conscious of the role of chance in life and understand your success is not completely deserved and {#blank#}7{#/blank#}the failure of others is not completely deserved either.”

    He continued, “I hope you{#blank#}8{#/blank#}(ignore), so you know the importance of listening to others{#blank#}9{#/blank#}I hope you will have just enough pain to learn compassion.”

    In the end, each graduate received a pocket-size copy of the Constitution {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(sign) by Roberts.

I used to be very fat. I didn't consider{#blank#}1{#/blank#}to be a burden until some of my friends started to call me "Fatty", {#blank#}2{#/blank#} was more than I could bear. I tried hard to do something about it but was unable to find an effective way{#blank#}3{#/blank#}(reduce) my weight. Some suggested that I should have only a meal a day, and I thought the idea was worth{#blank#}4{#/blank#} (try). However, it did not help make any significant progress because, being too{#blank#}5{#/blank#} (hunger), I tended to eat a lot more the next day. If I {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(skip) a dinner, I wouldn't even have the energy to get out of bed the next morning. Since such things were repeated all the time, my frustration deepened day after day. Finally, a friend of mine advised me to go to {#blank#}7{#/blank#} fitness center. I gave it a try and it {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(real) worked wonders. Over the past several months I have lost more than 30 pounds. Now, I am much {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(thin). When my friends jokingly say I am as light {#blank#}10{#/blank#} a feather, I know I have rid myself of the burden.

    Ten-year-old Traci Weinstein from New York has a lot of shoes! Her interest in shoes started when she learned that every day, all around the world, many children cannot attend school and many people are {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (able) to work because they don't have shoes. Traci {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (inspire) by her grandfather to help the poor in Guatemala {#blank#}3{#/blank#} might not have shoes. So she began to collect shoes!

    To help the people, Traci worked with the non-profit {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (organize), Sole4Souls. Sole4Souls' goal is to collect shoes to help “get rid of poverty(贫困)”. They have provided millions of shoes {#blank#}5{#/blank#} people in need in over 100 countries!

    Traci set {#blank#}6{#/blank#} huge goal. She wanted to collect 25,000 shoes to benefit poor people in her birth country of Guatemala. {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (amazing), in just a few months, Traci not only hit her goal {#blank#}8{#/blank#} collected over 30,000 pairs of shoes! She is {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (excite)to be making a difference in the world. Traci and her family hope {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (visit) Guatemala and give out shoes to those in person.

    Miners have dangerous jobs because occasionally the earth sinks or falls apart. When this happens, miners are {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(trap) underground. They are buried {#blank#}2{#/blank#} they don't have air to breathe, food to eat, and water to drink, they will die. They {#blank#}3{#/blank#} not go without any of these things for long, but the first is the most important. {#blank#}4{#/blank#}is difficult to figure out where miners are and reach them in time. Trapped miners dream of {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (be) free and don't give up.

    In August 2010, 33 miners{#blank#}6{#/blank#} (go) to work in a mine in Chile, All of a sudden, a wall broke apart and rocks and dirt filled {#blank#}7{#/blank#} mine's exit. At first, people thought all the miners died. {#blank#}8{#/blank#} , after working for 17 days, people at the surface learned the miners were still alive. {#blank#}9{#/blank#}, people on the surface figured out where the miners were and dug a {#blank#}10{#/blank#}to send them food and water.